DevOps Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Company Summary:

Blurb® is a book-making platform and creative community that enables individuals to create, publish, share and sell high-quality photo books, trade books, and magazines in both print and digital formats. Blurb is accessible to consumers across the globe with free, innovative book creation and layout tools. Founded in 2005, Blurb has over 2 million customers worldwide, resulting in over 4 million unique book titles, with nearly 18 million units shipped to almost 100 countries around the world. We are headquartered in San Francisco.

The Opportunity:

We evolve our platform continually in response our dynamic market, and that means continual growth and change for our product and infrastructure. We need strong and experienced IT/DevOps practitioners who have depth in their toolbox and the imagination to apply those tools to continuously improve our environment and methods.

About You on our Team:

As a member of our DevOps team, you specialize in certain areas while backing up others in theirs. This means close collaboration and quick huddling for real-time decision making. You keep strong relations with our broader team, understanding their objectives and translating them into solid solutions that manage both risk and urgency. In short, you help us build an evolving and yet lasting foundation for deploying and managing our products.

Experience utilizing monitoring and metrics to plan and execute solutions

Experience with many of the following technologies or similar, or the ability to come onboard quickly with minimal guidance:

Ansible 2 (-playbook, -pull)

HashiCorp Vault

CentOS 6

Packer

KVM (Linux 2.6)

Dell server hardware

VMware 6

Git and GitHub

EC2 and S3

Jenkins 2 pipelines and jobs / comparable CI tools

Advanced bash (regex, functions, signals)

Python, Ruby, Java, or SQL experience a plus

F5 BIG-IP and HAProxy load balancers

Icinga 2 / nrpe

SumoLogic / Splunk

Tomcat 8 / Apache / Nginx

Expectations and occasional work scenarios:

Occasional travel on prem to any one of our 3 data centers located in Oakland, CA or Salt Lake City, Utah or Portland, Oregon to assist / rack new equipment, configure and test, or decommission old equipment

How to Apply

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

The employer will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and other job functions are subject to modification. Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.